On Jun 06 11:30:46, mill...@openbsd.org wrote: > On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 19:14:28 +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > Is the aim to let the ISP know that the iface is down, > > so that it gets set up afresh on boot, as opposed to > > waiting for some PPP keep-alive timeout? > > Basically. It is to work around an issue where the pppoe ethernet > interface goes down during reboot before the pppoe disconnect message > can be sent to the ISP. > > I'm not sure it is needed anymore, though I still have it in my own > rc.shutdown file.
After a few reboots with and without that, I can confirm that having 'ifconfig pppoe0 down' in rc.shutdown noticeably speeds up getting an address assigned on the next boot. With my ISP, it's seconds as opposed to a minute or two. Thank you. Jan
